Salesman&#39;s sample.



PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906.

H. E. BODINE.

SALESMANS SAMPLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13, 1905.

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No. 832,585. PATENTED OCT. 9, 1906.

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HARRY E. BODINE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SALESIVIANS SAMPLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 1906.

Application filed September 13, 1905. Serial No. 278,231.

folding and uniting a piece of cloth of a size sufiiciently large to form therefrom after use as a sample, a portion of a garment or a complete garment.

Heretofore salesmens samples have been made of cloth of comparatively small size, which after having served such purpose were unfit for subsequent other uses.

The principal objects of my invention are, first, to provide cloth suitable for a portion of a garment or a complete garment after use as a sample of a size normally too large to serve as a sample, and, second, to fold the cloth and unite the folded portions with each other so that the large piece of cloth is reduced to a conveniently small size and the folded portions held together against unfolding so long as the same is to serve the purpose of a salesmans sample.

The nature and scope of my invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the acoompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a piece of cloth of a size sufiiciently large to form a portion of a garment or a complete garment, as illustrated by the dash and dotted lines thereon, and which when folded and united at its ends is adapted to become a salesmans sample, the same embodying main features of my present invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are similar views illustrating the manner of folding the cloth into a conveniently-small size for handling. Fig. 4 is a similar view illustrating the folded cloth united at one of its ends by a cap or binder and provided with a tag or ticket adapted to receive matter of information, so as to form a salesmans sample. Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating in perspective the ea or binder for certain of the folded portions 0 'the piece of cloth. Fig. 6 is a similar view enlarged, illustrating the tag or ticket detached from the sample and the manner of bending the same and providing a certain portion thereof, with a layer of adhesive material; and Fig. 7 is a crosssec tional view on the line 7 7 of Fig. 4.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a piece of cloth or fabric of any suitable mate rial and of a size sufficiently large to form in the present instance part of a pair of trousers, when out, as indicated by the dash and dotted lines a in Fig. 1. In order to form a salesmans sample of this piece of cloth and to render the same suitable to form part of a pair of trousers after having been used as a sample, the cloth is folded and united at the ends in the following preferred manner: First the piece of cloth or fabric A is folded or turned over at both its vertical ends and preferably at the lines indicated at a in Fig. 1, so as to bring the parallel edges (1 thereof opposite to each other and in the present instance into a position corresponding to a longitudinal central line of the remaining unfolded portion a of the piece of cloth A, as shown in Fig. 2. Thus the piece of cloth A is first divided into three sections a a and a, of which the portions (1 and a are disconnected from each other. In order to connect these portions, the same are united by stitches b, preferably formed of sewing-thread which passes through the portions a and a at certain intervals and in close proximity to the edges 0 thereof. These stitches I) prevent the unfolding ofthe portions a and a of the piece of cloth A and by their close or adj acent arrangement to the edges of the same will not damage or render the cloth unfit for further use. The piece of cloth A so folded is again folded, but in this instance in a plane transversely to the first folding on the lines a in Fig. 1, so as to bring the remaining free edges 0. of the portions 0 at and a. into alinement with each other, as shown in Fig. 3.

In order to protect these ends or edges a and to unite the same with each other, a cap or binder c is employed, which by means of the flaps c and c overlap the portions a a, and a for a distance sufficient to completely conceal the same, as shown in Fig. 4. Through the openings c in the flaps c and c and through the folded cloth arranged between the same there are inserted adjacent to the edges 0. thereof staples or fasteners d, which removably connect the cap or binderc with the cloth. The piece of cloth A is thus reduced to a quarter of its size, as shown in Fig. 1, and now forms a sample B of a size conveniently small to permit of the easy handling of the same and in which all the edges of the folded sections or portions a a*, and a are concealed and united with each other in a manner to prevent unfolding of the same during the time it is used as a sam le. To render this sample complete in a its features, a tag or ticket 6 is removably attached thereto, the side 6 of which may be used to receive matter of information, such as the price of the cloth and the like. In order to prevent the removal of the tag and the substituting of another tag, the same is formed of a stri of flexible material, preferably paper, whic is folded so as to form three sections e, c and a as fully shown in Fig. 6. Two sections 6 and e are used to embrace a certain part of the portions a and a of the cloth A, and are arranged, preferably, adjacent to the lower right-hand corner of the sample, as shown in Fig. 4. These sections 6 and e are removably united to each other and with the sample B by staples or fasteners f passing through the same. After the staples f have been removably secured by bending the free ends f over the flap 6*, provided with a layer of mucilage, cement, or other adhesive substance 9, the same is then turned over the bent ends f of the staples f and is readily united with the portion e of the tag by means of the layer g, which, however, has been previously moistened. Thus the ends f of the staples f are concealed by the flap e of the tag 6 and at the same time any attempt of removing the tag 6 from the sample can be readily detected.

Instead of using a iece of cloth A of a size sufficiently large to orm a portion of a garment or a complete garment the same may be cut, for instance, as indicated by the dash and dotted lines a in Fig. 1, in which form, the same may also be folded and united at its edges to form a sample in the same manner .as hereinbefore fully explained.

Having thus described the nature'and objects of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A salesmans sample, consisting of a piece of cloth of a size sufliciently large to be used so as to form a portion of a garment or a complete garment having folded or turnedover portions to bring the respective parallel ends thereof adjacent to each other and means adapted to unite the ends to connect the same with each other and to prevent unfolding of the cloth.

2. A salesmans sample, consisting of a piece of cloth of a size sufficiently large to be used so as to form a portion of a garment or a complete garment having folded or turnedover portions to bring the respective parallel ends thereof adjacent'to each other, means adapted to unite the ends to connect the same with each other and to prevent unfolding ofthe cloth, and means adapted to receive matter of information.

3. A salesmans sample, consisting of a piece of cloth of a size sufiiciently large to be used to form a portion of a garment or a complete garment having folded or turned-over portions to bring the respective parallel ends adjacent to each other, threads adapted to unite two of said ends, a cap or binder adapted to connect two of the other ends, both threads and ca cooperating to prevent unfolding of the 0 0th.

4. A salesmans sample, consisting of a piece of cloth of a size sufficiently large to be used to form a portion of a garment or a complete garment having folded or turned-over portions to bring the respective parallel ends adjacent to each other, threads adapted to unite two of said ends, a cap or binder adapted to connect two of the other ends, both threads and cap cooperating to prevent unfolding of the cloth, and a tag or ticket removably secured thereto and adapted to receive matter of information.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a salesmans sample, consisting of a iece of cloth, two sections of which are olded inward lengthwise to form a strip, the strip again folded in half, and a binder covering and securing the two ends together, as specified.

6. A salesmans sample, consisting of a piece of cloth, two sections of which are folded inward lengthwise to form a strip, the strip then being folded in half crosswise, a binder inclosing and securing the ends to gletlipr, and a designating-tag attached to the 0 0t 7. The combination, with a piece of oods having its edges folded over, said goods eing also doubled so that its folded portions come together, of a binder secured over the exposed end portions of the said goods.

8. The combination with a piece of goods having its edges folded over, said goods being also doubled so that its folded portions come together, of a channel-shaped binder inclosing the exposed end portions of the saidv goods, and removable fastening devices passing through holes in the said binder and goods.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HARRY E. BODINE.

Witnesses:

WILHELM VoGT, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

